It's difficult for young children who see images of wounded people to realize that the traumatic events isn't still happening, child psychologists say.

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| Elizabeth Weise
| USA TODAY

Turn off the TV. That's the most important advice for parents from child mental health experts in the wake of the Boston bombings.

"Young children especially don't realize that the images that get shown again and again on TV are of the same event," says Robert Hilt, a child psychiatrist at Seattle Children's Hospital. "After 9/11, we had children who thought that buildings were being blown up all over the country and that it kept happening."